With the help of Gravity Diagnostics, Public Health Director Cassie Prather said Woodford County is now able to offer drive-thru testing in the community. You can't do that though, so he's gotten tested more than anybody in our family."
"So every time, you know, if he goes to school, he gets sent back home because he's got a runny nose or he's coughing. "My 5-year-old has missed a lot of school already because he has really bad allergies," Brooks said. Like many, the mother is aggravated and wishes the pandemic would end. "I’ve been around somebody that got diagnosed with COVID. Testing was set to be expanded throughout facilities overseen by the BOP, according to an April statement which said it had received rapid testing instruments and would be using them "particularly at facilities experiencing widespread transmission.Government and public health officials in Woodford County cut a ribbon to unveil a new COVID-19 testing site. The number of staff recoveries is also climbing.
"There were more than 2,060 inmates with current confirmed positive lab results for COVID-19," according to Carvajal. Currently, only 51 of our institutions, less than half, have been affected by COVID-19." "We have 142,000 inmates in 122 facilities. "This number, however, is in no way representative of a positive rate across the agency" Carvajal continued. "The vast majority were asymptomatic and approximately 70 percent tested positive for COVID-19." Those numbers work out to less than two percent of all inmates within the prison system being tested for coronavirus. "At this time last week, roughly 2,700 inmates had been tested," said BOP Director Michael Carvajal in a Wednesday video address. On a national level, testing numbers released by the U.S. Nearly 70 individuals at a Kentucky correctional facility have been confirmed to have coronavirus Thursday as the Bureau of Prisons revealed testing numbers for inmates was low. This story will be updated with any response. Newsweek reached out to FMC Lexington for comment. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that his office "continues to be in close contact with state and local officials to monitor the situation, as well as the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons to get more resources to the Lexington Federal Medical Center and to encourage its workers to get tested." "We must work together to stop the spread through our prisons." "My office has been in touch with prison officials and public health officials in Lexington and across the state this week, connecting them for information and resources," Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said Thursday. State lawmakers have gotten involved, calling for more communication between FMC Lexington and the Lexington Health Department. "Communication with has been sporadic, and sometimes it's non-existent," Lexington Health Department Spokesman Kevin Hall told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday. However, communication between FMC Lexington and the local health department has been limited. Officials at the Lexington Health Department have called for any individual who has worked at FMC Lexington since April 20 to be tested for the virus because of possible exposure. Inmates at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington, Kentucky have only received a limited amount of coronavirus testing although 69 people have been confirmed by the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to have contracted the virus within the facility.
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